Kolkata, July 1 -- The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Md Shakir Ali, the husband of the party's former Lok Sabha member Aparupa Poddar, in connection with the 2023 communal violence during Ram Navami celebrations in Hooghly district's Rishra town, police said, adding Poddar was also booked for assaulting a public servant and obstructing an officer from performing duty during Ali's arrest. Ali is the councillor for Ward 4 at Rishra municipality while Poddar was the MP from the district's Arambagh seat during the incident into which the Calcutta High Court ordered the NIA probe in 2023. Poddar was not fielded by TMC in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The TMC leader was arrested from his residence in Rishra, police said. "An NIA team arrived at Rishra on Tuesday and informed the local police. The NIA officers went to Ali's residence and arrested him around 3.30 pm after hours of questioning. A group of local residents tried to block the road when the NIA team was leaving with Ali but we removed the crowd," a district police officer said, requesting anonymity. There was no official statement from NIA on the arrest till the time of print. TMC also did not comment. On April 2, 2023, during the Ram Navami celebration, the BJP alleged that a rally was attacked outside a mosque in Rishra....